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Why Art and Activism Goes Together Better than Oil and Water
News Release WHY ART AND ACTIVISM GOES BETTER TOGETHER THAN OIL AND WATER The People’s Procession Against the Pipelines Gabriel Saloman and Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) Saturday, April 12, 10am-4pm Burnaby, BC Presented by UNIT/PITT Projects as part of Collective Walks/Spaces of Contestation curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte In the Summer of 2013,…
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Spaces of Contestation full schedule of events
Spaces of Contestation is possibly the most ambitious project we have hosted since our relaunch in 2011. That’s saying a lot, since we’re comparing it to three years of Wrong Wave, the Ill Repute and What Future commissioning series, and the recent Crawling, Weeping mini-festival. The project, curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, includes five lectures, four…
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Coming up: In Pursuit of Perpetual Motion, and The New Clothes
Next up at UNIT/PITT: the very first performance in Spaces of Contestation, a performance and procession by Lauren Marsden and the Vancouver Public Library, In Pursuit of Perpetual Motion. The performance will start at 1pm on Saturday, March 22, at the VPL Central Branch, culminating in a procession from the VPL (350 West Georgia Street,…
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Spaces of Contestation Talks online
Stephen Collis’s talk Riot Dogs and Research Labs: Poetry and Struggle is coming up tomorrow (Wednesday, March 12, 7pm, at SFU Woodwards, free admission). His talk is the fourth in a series about the city, art, and activism, providing a critical context for the overall Spaces of Contestation series. If you have missed the previous…
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Next: Spaces of Contestation
Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting is over. After almost two months, seven midnight performances, innumerable city tours, seven stories told and matched with seven drinks; horns, strings, and drums played; twenty-one or more dances improvised; a wallet stolen in front of bystanders and then returned; layers of paint, writing, and paper applied to the Pitt’s walls…